Hope for regional SA to be on agenda

One group with it's eyes fastened on last week's political rollercoaster has been the Clare Regional Wine Grape Association.

The industry body has long been lobbying the State Government to work with them on a solution to soaring water costs for the region's grape growers.

It's water sub committee chair, John Bastian says the Labor party has been difficult to work with on this issue so far.

But he hopes Geoff Brock may be able to help and get regional S-A as a whole into the political agenda.

Now is the time to bait as snails get ready to mate

Brooke Neindorf

With cool and moist conditions starting to arrive grain growers are being encouraged to take advantage of the weather and bait for snails.

Baiting needs to be done before snails start to mate and may eggs.

One group on Facebook has taken the guesswork of when the snails could mate and made it into a competition - adding a bit of fun to the annoyance of the pests.

Regional landcare facilitator in the northern Yorke region Michael Richards helps to run the On Farm Facebook page and set up a competition to pick the date and time of the first lot of snails that are mating.

He says it's probably not far away because there has been snails seen.

Wool report

It was a cheaper wool market again for the third week in a row according to Tony Kidman from Dalgety Wool.

He says this could be due to a lack of demand for merino fleece wool at the moment, with not much action out of Europe and China.

There was just over 40,000 bales offered with a pass in rate of 16 per cent.